Our Accreditation History
AAAP has been offering AMA PRA Category 1 CME credits™ to members attending our Annual Meeting since 1986. Members and non-members participating in our live courses, self-assessment enduring material activities and webinars, and grant funded CME activities also received credit through joint sponsorships with our educational partners.
Recognizing that AAAP produced high quality educational activities worthy of CME credit, AAAP’s Board of Directors appropriately resolved that the organization needed to become an ACCME accredited provider. In March 2014, AAAP received Provisional Accreditation status with the ACCME and in March 2016, AAAP fulfilled the accreditation requirements for ACCME’s Accreditation with Commendation
Throughout the years, AAAP continues to secure federal grants intended to train the entire medical community on topics related to the treatment of co-occurring mental health disorders and substance use disorders. These grants encouraged us to establish a coalition comprised of primary care physicians, nurses, pharmacists, behavioral healthcare specialists, social workers and counsellors and to develop continuing education activities tailored for the entire healthcare team. In 2017, the AAAP Board of Directors recommended that AAAP research Joint Accreditation so that we can more effectively and efficiently offer interprofessional education designated for credit applicable to the health care team we are now educating.
Joint Accreditation: Interprofessional Continuing Education: Education for the team, by the team
In 2019, American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry was approved as a provider of Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™. Joint Accreditation is the leading model of interprofessional collaboration that helps improve healthcare through continuing education for the team, by the team. Joint Accreditation offers us the opportunity to be simultaneously accredited to provide medicine, pharmacy and nursing continuing education activities through a single, unified application process, fee structure and set of accreditation standards, from these three global leaders in the field of accreditation: Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). By offering three accreditations in one review process, Joint Accreditation promotes interprofessional continuing education activities specifically designed to improve interprofessional collaborative practice in health care delivery. Learn more about Joint Accreditation.
American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry has also added accreditation for these disciplines and some of our activities offer credits for these as well:
- American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
- American Dental Association’s Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP)
About Our Team
AAAP is an academic membership society, comprised primarily of addiction psychiatrists and healthcare providers who have an interest in addiction medicine. The organization is governed and operated by a Board of Directors, an Executive Committee, a Chief Executive Officer, and a variety of member committees that report to the Board of Directors. Members do not need to be physicians and the number of non-physician members actively serving on committees is growing. These member committees provide members the opportunity to participate and contribute in a collegial environment to define and carryout the mission of the organization. AAAP provides all healthcare providers with an opportunity to work with colleagues in collaborations, learn up-close from thought leaders, and contribute their own knowledge to an ever-expanding dialogue.
Disclosure
It is AAAP’s policy to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in the educational programs designed by our committees and educational partners. In accordance with that policy, as well as standards set forth by the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, course planners, speakers, and content reviewers have been asked to disclose any relationship they have to companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients, within the past 24 months of their involvement with an activity. AAAP then ensures that any relevant financial relationships are mitigated before the educational activity occurs. Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is elicited to provide our learners with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given presentation.
In addition, faculty and content developers have been asked to list any off-label uses of pharmaceuticals and/or devices for investigational or non-FDA approved purposes that they plan to discuss.
